On October 14, the pickup was exploded to a crowded shopping street in Guayaquil, Ecuador, resulting in one death and two injuries. Governor described the incident as a deliberate attack.
May. Jorge Montanero from the Guayaquil fire brigade informed the local television station Ekvisa that the mortality was a nearby taxi driver. He also mentioned that the police are currently checking all vehicles in the area.
“Evacuating the whole building as a preventive measure”
“We evacuate all the building as a preventive measure,” Montanero said. Asked if it could be a car bomb, he mentioned that they would have to wait for the police to investigate. “We don’t know, but the normal car doesn’t throw like this,” he said.
In 2023, Ecuador experienced a series of bomb attacks on the car in the middle of an increase in violence after the assassination of the presidential candidate.
In March, the vehicle exploded near the greatest prison of the Ecuador on the edge of Guayaquil and killed the prison guard. The authorities allegedly combined bombing with a criminal organization. Last year there were other vehicle explosions in Quit, which caused only minor damage and no death.
The police did not provide an immediate statement to the explosion.
Meanwhile, the government of Humberto Plaza of Guayas province, the capital of Guayaquil, said Tuesday’s explosion is “terrorist and simple” and promised that the police consider the responsible ones.
“We are going to catch them and pay and these people will be prosecuted for terrorism,” he said.
This area is full of restaurants and shops, some of which were broken by explosions.
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